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Israel Zinberg
Zinberg jeune.
Born	December 1873, 1872, 1873
Died	January 1939, 1938, 1939  (aged 65–66)
Occupation	Literary historian

Israel Zinberg (also known as Yisroel Tsinberg; born Sergei Lazarevich Tsinberg) (1873-1939) was a Russian-Jewish chemist and a historian of Jewish literature born in Rivne.^[1][2] His works are considered significant in European Jewish Yiddish scholarship. Alumnus of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology,^[3] Zinberg was not a professional historian by background or training, but worked as a chemical engineer in Petrograd and pursued literary history as an "avocation."^[4] He was a member of the St. Petersburg school of Jewish scholars along with Simon Dubnow.^[1] He drew on the works of Moritz Steinschneider and Ber Borokhov as well as Solomon Birnbaum, Maks Erik [pl], and Max Weinreich.^[5] Zinberg's work is foundational to the field of Old Yiddish literary studies.^[6]

In 1938, NKVD arrested Zinberg for Anti-Soviet agitation (Article 58 of the RSFSR Penal Code).^[7] The same year, he died in Vladivostok.^[8] Mark Wischnitzer believed he didn't die until 1943. ^[1]

• Zinberg, Israel (1973). A History of Jewish Literature. Press of Case Western Reserve University. ISBN 978-0-8295-0241-1. (multiple volumes)
  • Zinberg, Israel (1972). A history of Jewish literature. Internet Archive. Cleveland : Press of Case Western Reserve University. ISBN 978-0-8295-0228-2.
  • "A history of Jewish literature". Internet Archive. 1972. Retrieved 2024-10-07.

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